On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:39 -0600, Ron Wills wrote: > Hello all > > I'm running a postgres 7.4.5, on a dual 2.4Ghz Athlon, 1Gig RAM and > an 3Ware SATA raid. Currently the database is only 16G with about 2 > tables with 500000+ row, one table 200000+ row and a few small > tables. The larger tables get updated about every two hours. The > problem I having with this server (which is in production) is the disk > IO. On the larger tables I'm getting disk IO wait averages of > ~70-90%. I've been tweaking the linux kernel as specified in the > PostgreSQL documentations and switched to the deadline > scheduler. Nothing seems to be fixing this. The queries are as > optimized as I can get them. fsync is off in an attempt to help > preformance still nothing. Are there any setting I should be look at > the could improve on this???
Can you please characterize this a bit better? Send the output of vmstat or iostat over several minutes, or similar diagnostic information. Also please describe your hardware more. Regards, Jeff Baker ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq